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Take a look at some of our sample internships (2006-2012). You can also download the sample internship document as an Excel spreadsheet.

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  • A student conducted a study of possible links between formula feeding and HIV/AIDS mortality for the Africa Centre for Population Studies and Reproductive Health, South Africa.
  • A student worked with UNICEF in Bolivia on matters related to micronutrients and food fortification, specifically 1) developing a quality control system for the national salt fortification program and 2) researching a vehicle to be fortified with vitamin A.
  • A student went to Nepal for Save the Children to help expand their Positive Deviance Nutrition Program, offering technical and supervisory support to the Community Health Facilitators working in one poor community (Siraha).
  • A student spent the summer with UNICEF/Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) designing the nutrition component of a community center program, including: designing monitoring forms, creating a local calendar to determine children's ages, meeting with community members to determine what foods were available at what times of the year and what they currently feed children, designing improved options for weaning foods, developing training messages for community nutrition workers, etc. During her experience, she also helped to reunify demobilized child soldiers and wrote a quarterly report on current nutrition programs by OLS organizations.
  • A student assisted in completing an evaluation framework for programs to change individual behavior and health systems relating to cancer and modifiable risk factors (including nutrition) for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Cancer Prevention and Control Program in Boston.
  • A student interned at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, working for the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine. She was in charge of two main projects: creating a set of infectious-disease educational trading cards for children, and developing a curriculum unit for middle school teachers based on an epidemiological case study. The latter is currently being put up on the CDC ’s website for universal access.
  • A student went to the Congo to design and implement a nutrition survey of children and mothers in Lubumbashi, close to the conflict zone. Working for Action Against Hunger, she trained local staff in survey design and analysis and worked in partnership with local medical personnel.
  • A student went to Quito, Ecuador, to work with Corporacion Ecuatoriana de Biotecnologia, a private corporation conducting research in various areas of health and nutrition in Ecuador. Studies in progress included the Vazpop project - a vitamin A and a zinc prevention of pneumonia study - and a project comparing health and nutrition status of elderly people in two different socioeconomic zones. The intern's specific duties included:
    1. Aiding doctors and nurses with the enrollment of a 600-subject cohort (children 6 months - 3 years) through anthropometric measurements.
    2. Designing and creating a 24-hour dietary assessment survey.
    3. Carrying out the 24-hour dietary assessment survey in 4 low socioeconomic neighborhoods (with 64 subjects).
    4. Analyzing the data collected for the 24-hour dietary assessment.
  • A student went to the township of Ramallah (outside Jerusalem) to work on medical support issues with an NGO dealing with Palestinian refugees.
  • A student worked for the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD), Tumelong Mission, in South Africa. FSD has internships located in and around Winterveldt, an informal settlement north of Pretoria, South Africa, at Tumelong Mission, the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria's Mission for Community Development. Projects include income generation, agriculture, non-residential care for orphans, rehabilitation for disabled adults and children, primary school education, adolescent development program, nutrition centers, and social welfare. Over the summer, she worked closely with the nutrition centers, which were set up in and near the homes of women with malnourished children, offering nutrition education and supplements.
  • A student conducted an evaluation of city health centers and their educational material on breastfeeding for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Division of Early Childhood, Youth and Women's Health in Pennsylvania.
  • A student took on a winter internship based in Boston, Massachusetts, with Oxfam America. Intern's projects included creation of a Cash for Work Training Manual for Oxfam America employees - researching and evaluating current Cash for Work programs and then developing a general Cash for Work Training Manual to be used in emergency situations for short-term interventions. The intern also worked on creation of a Field Reference on Humanitarian Law and related conventions and protocols for Oxfam America employees, as well as other projects that developed over the course of the internship.
  • A student worked in Madagascar for Catholic Relief Services, monitoring relief and rehabilitation projects linked to cyclones and flooding.
  • A student worked with the Centre de Ressources pour l'Emergence Sociale Participative (CRESP, EcoYoff) in Senegal. Primarily staffed by local residents, CRESP, EcoYoff provides education to communities on technology, ecology, sanitation, nutrition and cultural preservation. The organization is well respected in Yoff and keeps local interest in the forefront of its actions. Researching and preparing nutrition information for the regional Early Child Development database/web page project, the intern was part of data management team for nutrition behavior change project. Duties included data entry and analysis, as well as creating graphics using Excel and Powerpoint.
  • A student analyzed food consumption data in Costa Rica for the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama.
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  • Teaching basic nutrition to rural Guatemalans, encouraging use of soy products as protein sources, and creating a soy recipe book in Spanish. Sponsor: Plenty International (a non-profit US-based international development organization).
  • Learning how to maintain heritage varieties of vegetables and flowers with an Austrian non-profit organization; visiting European organic farms, and helping an agricultural museum in Pennsylvania interpret heritage varieties to visitors. Sponsors: Arche Noah (Schiltern, Austria) and Landis Valley Museum (Lancaster, Pennsylvania).
  • Participating in a structured midwestern summer internship program assessing soil quality and barriers to adoption of organic farming. Sponsor: The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas.
  • Designing and conducting children's classes in "Agriculture and Community" at Massachusetts Audubon Society's farm.
  • Managing urban farmers' markets in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.
  • Coordinating the USDA's Interagency Sustainable Agriculture Working Group by organizing meetings, facilitating the nomination of participants, and setting up educational forums and a farm tour. Sponsor: United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Updating a farm trails map to promote agricultural tourism on Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) and assisting with the first Annual Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Trade Show. Sponsor: Massachusetts Cooperative Extension.
  • Facilitating small-scale fruit processing (production of strawberry and raspberry jam) with several local fruit growers and evaluating the value of this processing for their farm operations. Sponsor: Massachusetts Cooperative Extension.
  • Conducting a rural survey in Migori, Kenya to assess agricultural constraints and social, health, and economic conditions. Sponsor: Mission: Moving Mountains, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Investigating problems related to pesticides, labor organizing, farmworkers, occupational safety, and militarization on the US/Mexico border. Sponsor: Interhemispheric Resource Center, Silver City, NM.
  • Critically reviewing historical community kitchen ventures in New England and creating recommendations for community kitchens which would simultaneously serve low-income neighborhoods and boost sustainable farming.
  • Analyzing a secondary data set to assess whether participation in the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program improves the diets of elderly people in the Greater Boston area.
  • Compiling an annotated directory of museeums with "living history" farms or other programs to interpret heritage varieties to the public, with recommendations for overcoming common challenges.
  • Evaluating a program to promote Vitamin-A gardens in Bangladesh. Sponsor: Helen Keller International, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Developing guidelines for mixing, loading, and storage of pesticides in the state of Massachusetts. Sponsor: Department of Food and Agriculture.
  • Designing and conducting workshops on farm management practices to reduce groundwater contamination. Sponsor: New England Small Farm Institute, Belchertown, MA.
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  • American Dietetic Association
  • Burson-Marsteller Public Relations
  • Cooking Light magazine
  • Eating Well magazine
  • General Mills, Inc.
  • Healthgate.com
  • Kellogg USA, Inc.
  • Ketchum Public Relations
  • Kraft Corporation
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Nestle
  • Porter Novelli Public Relations
  • National Cancer Institute
  • Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter